Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Community:Vox pop interview (ID: 23642202)
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Applicant Details
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Musa Vacho77
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Hausa Community: Vox pop interview
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-01-20 - 2026-03-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social affairs Nigeria's population is estimated at 237 Million people in 2025. And research also shows that over 140 Million Nigerians used the internet referred as Internet community in Nigerian. In Hausa Wikipedia we have 38,635 editor and as of today we have active editors as 257 this is the number of editors that edit within the last 30 days. This is less than 1% of the total editors we have. This statistic is clearly showing, lack of awareness, lack of editors retention mechanism, and lack of proper campaign that introduce newbies to the movement. To this, So we come up with an idea, that will create awareness, bring new editors, engage and retain new and old editors and also skill up editors. This project aim to bridge this gap conducting a street interview (vox pop) to catch the real Wikipedia awareness in Hausa community across northern Nigeria, Kano and Kaduna to be precise. And share those interviews online in other to spark.
1. Wikipedia discussions in our public spaces. 2. Create social media content to for awareness in our local community. 3. Invite participants from the interviews to our training workshop for real participantions.
Our Main Approaches are
1. Vox pop interview recording: asking everyday northerner from Kano and Kaduna state what they know about Wikipedia.
2. Content creation and social media post. Creating short interviews content vox pop (3 - 4 Min), Registration guide content and Wikipedia editing content to be shared widely online.
3. Call to action. Invite participants at the end of every video to a beginners Wikipedia free training workshop.
4.In person training workshop both in Kano and Kaduna for the newly recruit.
5. Continuation of online workshop to Hausa Wikipedia admins and project organiser on editors retention mechanism.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
1. Preparing the sets of interview (Vox Pop) question eg Do you know Wikipedia? Do you know you can edit it like everyone? Etc.
Identify, one of the busiest locations for the interviews, eg Kofar Nasarawa Kano state, Zoo Road Kano state, Yakubu Gawon Way in Kaduna state and others.
Branding materials, like T-shirt, Caps, Mic and Banners. To make the campaign recognizable.
2. Vox Pop Filming: Conducting short street interview in Kaduna and Kano to ask not less than 100 everyday people form diversity classes what they know about Wikipedia. Capturing real life experiences of our community about Wikipedia.
3. Content creation and editing: Producing 3-4 short interviews (vox pop) in Hausa with English subtitles. To make it easy understanding and shareable. Across social media.
4. Public Awareness: sharing the content in the most popular social media in Nigeria e.g (Facebook, TikTok and Instagram). Including clear call to action at end of every video that will invite people to free training workshop about Wikipedia.
5. Wikipedia training workshop organised both in Kano and Kaduna. That will train 40-50 participants that were recruited through the social media content and the vox pop.
6. An online workshop focusing on Editors retention mechanism training for organisers in the community.
7. Continuation of editors retention workshop online I initiated in the community to engage the newly recruit and retain the old ones.
Train then to edit and contribute to Wikipedia and retain and engaged them through our monthly free worksho that I initiated.
8. Partner with Hausa community Influences to widely share the content online for larger audience reach.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Musa Vacho77: lead project organiser. An Administrator in Hausa Wikipedia, Jury with the wiki loves Africa and a Content creator. Uncle Bash007: An administrator in Hausa Wikipedia and a Videographer with UncleBash studio. Hauwa Sulaiman : an experience Wikipedian, a trainer, and a women representative. Umar Aliyu: An experience Wikipedian and social media assistant.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
1. New recruit 2. Hausa Community 3. Hausa Wikipedia. 4. Participants will be engage via WhatsApp to be added to our WhatsApp group and will also be followed up there.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
As a growing content creator, Wikipedia enthusiasts and a passionate researcher. When I see this opportunity I jump to it and as I said before I reach out to some editors in the community that we share same passion. We discuss, shape the project and also make announcement both online via WhatsApp and community portal and also to the leaders of the Hausa Users group.
This is link to the announcement. 1. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Socioeconomic Status
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. How effective vox pop (interview) and social media campaign is? 2. What our community knows and misunderstood about Wikipedia? 3. How effective influencer can contribute to this campaign?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 200 | 100 these are number of people that will be interviewed during the vox pop.
30-40 these are number of new recruit that will attend the workshop during vox pop. |
| Number of editors | 40 | 30-40 new recruit that will make contributions during the vox pop.
10- 15 returning participants that will make contributions during the campaign, help in conducting the campaign and edit and train new editors from Hausa community. |
| Number of organizers | 4 | These are organiser of the event that contribute their time and effort for the success of this project |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 |
| Wikidata | 200 |
| Wiktionary | 200 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Outreach dashboard or hashtag tool.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
4609632 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
3200 USD
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Yes
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